Open Thread: July the 27th

Have you been enjoying the Democratic convention? I think it has been pretty good. I’ve never been a big Bill Clinton fan, but you have to say when his speech was the most boring, it’s been a good couple nights.

Even in a couple days of stand outs, Michelle Obama’s speech was probably the best. I was only half listening to it while doing other things, but when she talked about waking up in a house built by slaves, my spine stood bolt up. I can’t imagine the feeling for decedents of slaves listening to it. I’m very proud to be a Democrat, and to keep pushing forward.

Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit’s busy on his handbill.us submission that if NifongMosby had only used the Reverse Fleeing Felon gambit, she would have six capital murder convictions instead of the disaster she has created.

@16, The unfolding of events on the campaign trail leave our trolls with little else.

Although I’m quite amused to see only one left standing with the GOP. The other two having announced their abandonment of the Republican party “on principle” leaves that racist lying imbecile as the last man standing. I guess that entitles him to drink the entire bottle of self-tanning lotion. Cheers!

The Reuters poll released today has Trump up 2 points. Three weeks ago she was up over Trump by 11 points in the same poll. So her $50M was about as effective as the $200M libbies handed to Bernie.

What’s a girl to do? Why, turn to Wall Street, of course.

Clinton’s tepid performance with small contributors has forced her to rely on big money. Only 19 percent of her donations came from individuals contributing $200 or less. Wall Street is her largest industry donor, with $41 million going into her coffers. Her biggest contributors have ties to Saban Capital, founded by Univision owner Haim Saban.

He’s followed by algorithmic hedge fund Renaissance Technologies, which has given $9.5 million, and the Pritzker Group, whose family founded the Hyatt hotel chain and gave nearly $8 million. Penny Pritzker is currently the secretary of commerce. The large donations have become critical as her campaign is burning through cash faster than her Republican opponent, Donald Trump.

Just a brief exposure to an image of the American flag shifts voters, even Democrats, to Republican beliefs, attitudes and voting behavior even though most don’t believe it will impact their politics, according to a new two-year study just published in the scholarly Psychological Science.

PuddyCommentariat: Then the DUMMOCRETIN Nutzo Commies react to Trump’s flag attack with two puny flags! DUMMOCRETINS like the vomit producer would rather burn, piss or shit on the flag. That’s what DUMMOCRETINS do!

“A single exposure to an American flag resulted in a significant increase in participants’ Republican voting intentions, voting behavior, political beliefs, and implicit and explicit attitudes, with some effects lasting 8 months,” the study found. “These results constitute the first evidence that nonconscious priming effects from exposure to a national flag can bias the citizenry toward one political party and can have considerable durability.”

PuddyCommentariat#2: This is why the DUMMOCRETIN Nutzo Commies have so many useless visuals to jack boot their mind numbed morons in Philadelphia while the protests are held at bay way away by the four miles of fence. Why didn’t the DUMMOCRETIN Nutzo Commies invest the costs of those four fence miles into the Philadelphia inner city children? Because DUMMOCRETINS don’t care about the inner city except to get their votes in November!

“It’s annoying to come onto a thread in the morning and see that the first five posts are awash in dipshittery, hatred, bile, and baby talk.”

Must be a fucked up, miserable existence to be a loon spewing hate, bile, and baby talk first thing in the morning, all through the day, then last thing at night, and then start all over again the next morning.

Must be a fucked up, miserable existence to be a loon spewing hate, bile, and baby talk first thing in the morning, all through the day, then last thing at night, and then start all over again the next morning.

Pretty much why I have no plans to be anything like Roger Dumbfuck Rabbit after I retire.

Puddy succeeds every day to prove to everyone that HA DUMMOCRETINS are desperate racists, scratching the sides of the septic tank as their true chronic minds are on display every day! They can’t stand an intelligent black man standing up to them! Think of Dr Obnoxious and the PuddyScript it wrote.

R senile and the Oregon moron making their daily racist comments only fuels QPPS to become more pressure packed each day. QPPS knows Puddy PWNS its sewer enhanced mind! Hence QPPS has to reply that Puddy is his “bitch”. Who is always zooming whom in every thread? QPPS is. Puddy could care less about QPPS because QPPS is just the latest atheist moron to really love Puddy! None of this bothers Puddy because it demonstrates how much Puddy PWNS each of these fools!

Earlier the Oregon moron wondered how come Travis backs Gary Johnson while Puddy backs Trump. Well Oregon moron it is very simple, so simple it passes your single cell mind at 10 feet and you continue to miss it.

Puddy is very against Careless Crooked Heilary. She represents everything that sucks about DUMMOCRETINS. Remember the bibmo eruptions unit with Betsy Wright? Careless Crooked Heilary could care less about all those wimens Cigarman abused. Careless Crooked Heilary tolerated it and promoted it. She is the ultimate coattail clinger. She uses black people for her personal gain. Careless Crooked Heilary was into whites only country clubs and nothing was ever said by DUMMOCRETINS! Debbie BS and the email scandal caused Debbie BS to be kicked to the curb and what did Careless Crooked Heilary do? Hires Debbie BS as her campaign chairman? When you are corrupt and it benefits Careless Crooked Heilary, Careless Crooked Heilary rewards those who implements corruption because the ends always justifies the means to DUMMOCRETINS!

There you go Oregon moron. Everything Careless Crooked Heilary represents is an anathema to Puddy from the inner city! Careless Crooked Heilary is for culling black babies from the DUMMOCRETIN hordes. Black Donkoinfanticide is high on her mind!

Voting for Gary Johnson is a wasted vote. The co-chairwoman of ISIS’ creation shows contempt for Bernie Sanders by claiming on 60 minutes she knew nothing is more BULLSHITTIUM for you fools to eat up! If what she did was as a Republican y’all would be calling for her carcass!

@31, Maybe you’d be surprised to learn that a substantial portion of that spending is to lock down local ad space in the weeks immediately before the vote. Of course, each campaign’s and each PAC’s media strategies are closely guarded secrets and they employ pretty large teams of staff and outside consultants to prepare, implement, and modify those plans. It’s pretty sophisticated stuff involving very large sums of money. With Florida, Nevada, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin all expected to play a role in the battle for control of the U.S. Senate, the competition for pre-booked air time and online space in battleground states is mighty tight. And with campaigns more and more focused on voter targeting and GOTV in battlegrounds to prevail, more and more of the ad placements are concentrated in those last few weeks.

Be grateful you don’t live in a swing state. Any exposure to radio and broadcast television during those weeks is almost unbearable. Also be grateful you don’t rely on ad placement for Trump to make your living. No Christmas if you did.

FACT: Hillary Clinton had a private email server.LIBERAL PRESS: Meh.FACT: There was classified information on the server.LIBERAL PRESS: Ho-hum.FACT: The FBI director said she was careless.LIBERAL PRESS: I’m bored.FACT: The statements from the FBI prove she lied.LIBERAL PRESS: This doesn’t matter.FACT: She had tens of thousands of emails deleted.LIBERAL PRESS: The emails were only about yoga.FACT: The FBI said her private server could have been hacked.LIBERAL PRESS: So what?FACT: Donald Trump said he hopes Russia releases the deleted emails.LIBERAL PRESS: OMG! HOW CAN A PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE SAY THAT! IT’S TERRIBLE! IT’S TREASON! David Gregory was H I L A R I O U S in his Careless Crooked Heilary ASSkissing!

The new USC/L.A. Times poll corroborates new polling data from Gallup that indicates that Trump and Clinton have exactly the same favorability among American voters for the first time. 37% of Americans view both candidates favorably, while 58% view them unfavorably.

I don’t find the regular trolls bothersome because I don’t read their mentally unhinged rantings. What I find bothersome is the people so fucking obsessed with them they need to read them and comment. They’re worse.

@62, Honestly, that has got to be some of the most inept “concern trolling” I’ve ever seen. Seriously, douche. You’ve got to lay some foundation. Build a little bit of framing first. And it wouldn’t hurt if you would adopt a sock puppet like that racist imbecile troll. That way we wouldn’t know in advance that you’re a right wing BLM Welfare Yeehawdi “conservative” Republican voter worried about Cheeto Jesus and hoping to bamboozle some Bernie Bros.

P.S. This is America. Declaration or not, there’s no such fucking thing as “independent”. Never has been. At least not since the Jackson admin. And even if there were, after voting Republican in every single election since you registered, it wouldn’t be you.

“Besides that, I’ve got to tell you something else. I think that the guy is lazy. And it’s probably not his fault because laziness is a trait in blacks. It really is, I believe that. It’s not something they can control. …”

BTW, I an NOT a Republican or a Democrat. I will NOT be voting for Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump in November.

I still believe the DNC treated Bernie Sanders badly. I may disagree with just about everything Bernie wants, but I actually like the guy and think he got a bad deal at the hands of a bunch of political hacks who think they’re better than everyone else. You’re just pissed because you’re an establishment Democrat who can’t wait to kiss Hillary’s ass on election day. Go ahead and enjoy yourself, douche.

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@71, The only thing you share in common with the Bernie or Bust idiots is that you’re frustrated that too many black people get to vote. And for the record I was a Bernie supporter right up until he could no longer mathematically win the nomination, regardless of super Ds. I’m a Democrat. I’m a Democrat who isn’t frustrated that my narrow little coastal urban intellectual view of the world is not universally shared by all the other Democratic voters. We have more than enough in common for me to live with. Yes, he wan’t treated with proper respect by the DNC. So what. It’s politics, not tiddly winks. It never made any difference to the outcome.

@81 yes the did….Protester or not (not sure why you would attend an event like the DNC or the RNC and boo….if you don’t like being there then just stay the fuck home. People should do something more productive with their lives…..boooing (the Republican mantra) is about as productive as sticking your thumb up your ass when you have diarrhea.

“And if there’s anything a Democrat needs, it’s the neverending ability to blame someone else for his sorry lot in life.”

I don’t – I think I am more content in life than I think you are. You seem to want to blame all your failures on Democrats….like they take all your money……ohhhh, boo hoo hoo. Not content with the money you have – who you balme? You blame someone else…..maybe try to believe you have enough, or go out and worker harder to earn more after all the taxes…..noooo, you rather sulk….taxes too high, wahhhh, wahhh, I need to cry.

@82 maybe Republicans should have thought of turning off the mic when Drumpf spoke at the RNC, or all his kids. Maybe they should have just had that retard reporter as a signer, and hope everyone enjoyed the show.

“Donald Trump said Wednesday that, if he is elected president, he would consider recognizing Crimea as Russian territory and lifting the sanctions against Russia. At a wide-ranging news conference, Trump said he “would be looking into that” when aske … (Politico)

Here’s the thing, Yours Truly. Obama’s approval rating doesn’t matter anymore. I’m sure it was a fine speech and all, and no doubt it made you moist.

If you really want to do some relevant comparisons, Yours Truly:

Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton now have identical favorability ratings, according to a new Gallup poll, and the average American does not look fondly upon either one of them. The new poll, conducted July 18-25, found 37 percent of Americans have favorable ratings of the two nominees, while 58 percent have unfavorable ratings. This is the first time Clinton’s favorable rating was not higher than Trump’s.

The Republican candidate, the orange fascist bully with small hands and stubby little fingers who believes America isn’t great unless we hate, that despicable man was diminished in all ways tonight by the audacity of hope.

@104 “Fighting for middle-class jobs and higher wages. Gee, a Republican is doing that. Go figure. Next thing you know we’re gonna hear about a Democrat in bed with Goldman Sachs or some shit like that. How about that, Yours Truly?”

LOL! WSJ says America is unhappy. Why aren’t Americans unhappy with TWO TERM President Obama?

I’m sure it was a fine speech and all, and no doubt it made you moist.

Oh boob! Save the misogyny for Melania. She gives you “hope”, no? But sorry, no can have pattern baldness fella. So frustrating for you! The combover’s flagging finances keeps her in fine fashion. Better finances than your’n for sure.

And if you been catching Mark Cuban’s tweets, the Clinton’s got you both beat.

Oh well, yours truly wishes you well on the trophy wife hunt, boob. Myself, yours truly would give way better odds on a DC address being in Drumpf’s future.

@6 So we should tear down the White House, Capital Building, Library of Congress, the Treasury, tear up the roads, and remove any vestige of slavery from the District of Columbia?

Would that include digging up every American buried from Arlington which although was originally seized from the Lee family during the Civil War ultimately the family was paid for the land or donated after legal wrangling. It’s all tainted by slavery. Slaves planted trees there, built the house ect.

Fuck lets accidently nuke Moscow and nuke Washington in contrition to the Russians and to cleanse the land of the taint of slavery.

@21 Well it’s obvious that your god as a practical joke decided man number 2 is a good goy, and his magic hands protected man number 2 while giving man number 1 an extra push and kick for working on Sunday or Saturday…you know on the Sabbath.

@27 I have to give this one to Puddy. It’s been stated on NPR that the 2nd man was not belted in by the police. And no statement that he belted himself in. Which would be difficult if he was also cuffed. Which he was.

Television has totally destroyed both major parties convention. Conventions have always been part show to the party faithful, but it gets even more so every 4 years. The Republican one was actually a little refreshing in that it was not perfect political theatre.

PS Although I don’t expect to vote for the republican I think their process was more democratic this time around,. They got Trump but it was more Democratic.

Personally Jill is looking pretty good in my book. Will their convention be televised or the libertarians and why the hell not.

@30 Actually it’s somewhere in most Prosecutors official or personal code of ethics to work for the public and work in the public interest. Allows them to use discretion, and a little mercy at times. There is an argument that justice is met by a Prosecutor just acting like they are going to punish someone whether or not any punishment eventually takes place. Or if the punishment is a mere slap on the wrist.

@59 If Russia hacked the server they did it before it’s existence was ever made public then it’s entirely possible the Russians have the deleted e-mails. I don’t see them releasing them as that would be poor spy craft, but it’s not treason for Trump to ask them to produce them. Good politics actually as it keeps it in the news cycle. If the Russians would release them unless you can show Trump knew back then about the e mail server and it was being hacked. Other nations trying to influence our elections. Hey that’s our thing practiced by both parties and Secretary of State Clinton. I think Merkel is still a little miffed about certain tapping of phones.

@69 Hope you have an outstanding and you are pulled over and find out about it. If you are in Tacoma you might get lucky and released because the jail is full. Other than the local police is doing a crack down it’s not surprising some people are getting extra attention due to warrants. Of course cops could be targeting people for arrest they think have outstanding warrants.

@77 Well some of what has gone on looks a lot like Tammany Hall or the Daily machine. Not always nice but smells of cronyism and corruption. Worse it makes the Republican process smell like Roses, even if the product of the process smells of shit as many on here claim. That last part should make Democrats look at their process seriously, and maybe there should be a real fight over some of this at the convention but that would not be good tv.

@93 Well Putin and the Russians can get the ball rolling on that anytime they want by petitioning the United States Congress. I think the Cubans should have done it years ago for at least laughs. Of course Puerto Rico petitions congress for statehood and gets ignored. Still waiting for any Presidential candidate to support statehood for Puerto Rico. Hey Jill Stein this could get your ratings up.

Great that we all here can talk about seat belts. But it kind of shows of how callous you morons are. Anyone with half a brain would realize and have enough sense that there is a pattern here of black men dying by cop. But you guys want to talk seat belts.

I see the sideways talking concealer dropped in again. Likes to use his real name but it cleaverly thinks he can smartly mask all the skeletons in the closet. But the picture is pretty bright and apparent.

Yeah, the best thing to look forward to or set the bar to is an unplanned trailer trash white wedding. So much better than a Kim Kardashian planned wedding.

It’s especially good and quaint when the place setting at the table is placed incorrectly, or there is only wild turkey alchahol and the limo is rented from Dukes of Hazard. And Daisy Duke shows up in skinny jeans with the Duck Dynasty guy attached at the penis and vagina.

The best part is to wait till the shotgun gets taken out and fired in salute to General Lee.

@124, Now hold on. Wild Turkey makes some fine American Bourbon. Like most big distilleries they make a range of products that cover low to high price points and appeal to a variety of tastes. But among whiskey connoisseurs for go-to bottles always in stock and reasonably priced, at least a couple of their products are very highly regarded (I’m fond of Rare Breed with a small splash of mineral water myself). With global corporate masters to satisfy and lofty sales volume targets to meet, they have no choice but to produce some crap in volumes. But don’t be fooled. All the Kentucky distilleries are in that boat. Frankly I’d rather drink an honest Bourbon like Wild Turkey 101 than fall in line and overpay for counterfeit marketing crap like Makers or (gag) Pappy.

17% equals a super fail! you won’t get out of 5th grade with that shit, and judging by your typing skills, internet skills, reading comprehension, etc. we can guess that 5th grade elementary is the best you could do.

listen pudwhacker, if you want to get our attention and admiration you have to drop the dick and pick up the keyboard. type type type (not wipe wipe wipe with tissues.)

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